Jae Edmonds

James Edmonds is a researcher at the Joint Global Change Research Institute a collaboration between the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he is Chief Scientist and Battelle Fellow, and at the University of Maryland in College Park, where he is College Park Professor of Public Policy.  He is one of the pioneers in the field of the integrated analysis of human and physical Earth systems. He began development of the Global Change Analysis Model, GCAM, in 1978. GCAM is a community multi-sector dynamics model, freely available at https://jgcri.github.io/gcam-doc/. GCAM enables simultaneous analysis of global and regional energy, technology, economy, land, water, atmosphere, and climate systems on time scales ranging from decades to century. His scientific contributions have 59,000 citations. He has served as lead author on every major Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change assessment. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University in economics in 1975.